The Real (and Virtual) Adventures of Nathan the IT Guy

There is a funny story behind Apple hitting an amazing target. After a young British girl downloaded the 10,000,000,000th application, “Paper Glider”, they received a phone call from Apple, the mother thinking it was a prank phone call, promptly hung up on the Apple representative. The girls were furious with their mother, as the prize was a credit for 10,000 iTunes dollars. If you think about it, you could download quite a bit of music and apps with that. Here is an insert from the CNET Article.

So who could be surprised when Gail Davis, a woman in Orpington, England, picked up the phone, listened to someone offering her a prize, and immediately replied, “Thank you very much; I’m not interested”?

The only problem was that the caller really was someone from Apple and Davis really had won a prize. For her household was, indeed, the one from which the 10 billionth app had been downloaded from Apple’s app store.

She did call back and got a help desk representative that was less then helpful, in the end though, Apple did call her back and the family did receive the prize.

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Nathan is a Senior Technical Architect and he’ll be blogging about virtualization, portable apps, useful little-known apps and general IT issues and resolutions encountered in his role as an IT consultant. He’ll also be blogging about his certification exam experiences with the MCTS track. Currently he has VCP3,4, 5, VTSP4/5, VMware VDI Accredidation, and MCP Certifications.